Mujhe Kuchh Kehna Hai...

In this journey called Life one is forever making choices.
When you have options, choose the best....but when you don't have any option, do the best... because a joyful Life is an individual choice....you cannot copy it from a recipe...

Saturday, August 12, 2017

She took her seat.
That cozily cushioned intricately woven cane chair in her small but comfortable lounge.
I settled in another one near her.Without much ado, and as if we had known each other since ages, she said:
"I made a mistake, I shouldn't have quit working. Now I feel lazy going
back to work ... and you know what" her voice turning a whisper, she added, "I have
actually lost much of my self-confidence ..."

I would like to believe that in her conversation, reflected the purity of her heart.
But frankly I can't be very sure.
After all, meeting someone first time, can one vouch for the purity of their heart ?

Here was a seventy five plus woman who was leading a relaxed life,
fussing over her tea, making her staff run all around the house for nothing, missing her outings and social life due to her ageing body and she was
asking me to meet her often and take her out on the BEST buses so that
she learns to ride a bus in Bombay City ...
WOW !!!
Amazing spirit ... and salutes to that.

More than twenty years my senior, she said she loved my hair "flying all over" under the fan-ki-hawa
And I loved her's ... not moving unless a touch of her dainty fingers permitted them to do so
Also mine now in their natural colour
Her's artificially coloured

"Why don't you write ? You have a treasure ( I mean TREASURE ) ..."
Yeah ... her treasure deserves the capitals
"I cannot write" she said simply
While she paused, I thought : "Sach mein lazy hain )
Oblivious to my thoughts, she went on, without any pride, and again very simply she said:
"Wo treasure to poorey India ka hai"

Indeed ... Indeed ...
Who could dispute that :-)

Tea was served with much grace
However she made the helper run back and forth a few times before she was satisfied with the degree of warmth and colour of the beverage

Then someone reminded her of a financial downturn she had suffered about half a century ago.
She did not take a moment to look at him in the eyes with such blank innocence as if a memory loss had happened suddenly !!!

Saturday, June 24, 2017

At the outset let me share some enlightenment that I received this Ramzaan :-)

1) Normal people suddenly turn Preachers and keep sending videos and messages which propagate the thoughts and "teachings" of "scholars" we have never heard about in a bid to "transform-and purify" our thought process !!!

2) Arabic suddenly becomes the language of the Muslims and they all seem to know it perfectly.

3) Tailor-made duas for Ramzaan, specially for Laylatul Qadr keep coming repeatedly and we are told that good deeds and prayer on this one night equals rewards equal to eighty years of prayer and charity

4) The best time for prayer and asking God for favours and blessings comes prescribed by the ulemas and you are supposed to parrot their duas for your own salvation.

This as I said is a portion of the mind boggling enlightenment.

Before it had happened I was under the impression that asking God for favours and blessings and being thankful to Him, comes from one's heart irrespective of a time-place bondage.

Also my understanding was that whatever I say to my Allah or ask of Him should be in a language that I know best, so that I don't need a translation along side of what I am saying.

But even if much of it was avoidable "spiritual bombardment" some of the "forwards" were interesting, informative and educative ... and spiritually nourishing too :-)

So here's a BIG THANK YOU to all friends and family who cared to keep me in their thoughts and duas.
Absolutely precious and welcome my dears :-)
Love you all

My apologies to friends and family who I may have hurt-irritated-annoyed many a time.
But rest assured I am incorrigible, so ... Well ... There's more to come !!!

But for now here's wishing all my near and dear ones and my dearest family a Happy Prosperous Enlightening day and year ahead.

Friday, March 17, 2017

I was in primary school.
So it must be almost four decades ago that I first saw Mr. Shashi Kapoor.
Real flesh-and-blood as they say!!!

You don't understand at that tender age why you instantly liked someone.
But looking back now, I can very well understand why that image, that memory has so vividly stayed with me all these years.
His charming vibrancy was spreading so much positivity.
His eyes and lips lighted with a smile that seemed to brighten up everything that came within its enchanting radius.
And as girls mobbed him for
autographs, that look of innocence on his face, asking if someone could
spare a pen, has got permanently engraved on my heart.

It was at the inauguration of an exhibition for some charitable cause.
One of my relatives was in the managing committee of the institution that was organizing the entire event.
Mr. Shashi Kapoor was the chief guest.
His
simplicity, as I think of it now, was overwhelming. He casually
strolled in the hall without much ado and mingled with the crowd with
remarkable ease.
He was so close I only had to stretch my arm and I would have touched a star :-)!!!

Then as they say, Time flew.
And
after many years when I saw Mr. Shashi Kapoor some years back at
Prithvi, he was, in his outward appearance not even remotely close to
the picture of his past self.
But that affectionate smile as he
blessed the young who sought his duas was adorably sweet and friendly,
though a bit more matured and solemn.

The serenity and
calm on his face, so encouraging and uplifting, must certainly come from
the satisfaction of having lived life without compromising on
character.
Indeed it is with much contentment that I, his ardent
fan over the years realised that Mr. Shashi Kapoor has grown splendidly
in stature as an inimitable film maker, a classy theater personality and
an endearing human being ....

He has shown his mettle as an intense actor, he has been a skillful
director, a resourceful producer, a fearless film maker, and a pioneer
in giving theater lovers in Bombay an absolutely sumptuous treat year after year.

Visiting Prithvi is like meeting a soulmate.

What an enviably inspirational personality this wonderful man is ....
May he live long.
He has the Junoon of a true Vijeta

Friday, March 10, 2017

"Holi Kab hai? Kab hai Holi?"
Asked Gabbar Singh in "Sholay"
Back then he was waiting to spill a horrific colour.
The colour that has been blurring logic and vision globally since times immemorial.
The colour of Revengeful Violence.

So the blossoms of population may have exploded almost everywhere, but the shoots of life seem to have dwindled as much too.

From Holika to Gabbar, and before and beyond, there are unending incandescent streaks of ill will that shroud conciliatory colours of Peace.
They stagnate the revitalizing hues of love, the inspirational aura of Hope and the happy shades of togetherness ...
Ethics and morals have lost their colour.

Holi, the festival of colours is here again.
People will symbolically burn down evil and pray for the phoenix of goodness to rise high from those ashes.
But unless we discover the rainbow of harmony and goodwill within ourselves, all the cheerful colours in our festive pichkaaris will only remain a beautiful illusion.

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